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Facts, Figures, and Digital Resources

Acronyms & Abbreviations

Acronym Finder search by acronym or whole words
Abbreviations.com
MediLexicon Search acronyms and abbreviations for medicine, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agrochemicals, and health care

Africa

Aluka a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa
AfricaResource hosts 5 peer-reviewed journals
Africabib Searchable bibliography of scholarly research on Africa

Almanacs

Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac
World Almanac (via OCLC FirstSearch) Lake Forest College only
Almanacs via LexisNexis In the blue left menu, click "Sources," then "Browse Sources," then “Reference,” then “Encyclopedias and Almanacs,” then check the boxes for the almanacs you wish to search, and then the red OK - Continue button on the right. — Lake Forest College only

Art & Architecture

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
VADS Visual Arts Data Service, from the University of Creative Arts —over 100,000 images that are free for use in education
Artcyclopedia “The Guide to Great Art on the Internet”
Imagebase from the digital archives of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute —Conditions of Use
Chicago Imagebase
Digital Librarian: a librarian’s choice of the best of the Web
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Great Buildings indexed by the building’s date and name
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art images of and specifications for thousands of works of art
OAIster Digital material can be searched and sorted by Author/Creator, Title, etc.
Prints and Photographs Reading Room (Library of Congress) digital collections of images of fine art, architecture, cartoons, and other two-dimensional works — not all are in public domain, copyright restrictions apply
SmartHistory free, online, multimedia, art history textbook sponsored by the Kress Foundation
Voice of the Shuttle: Art (Modern and Contemporary) links to many image-filled sites and other related resources
Wikimedia Commons

Biographies

Books & Publishing

Lake Forest College bookstore
CHOICE Reviews Online Reviews of academic books — Lake Forest College Only
Abebooks.com Rare, new, used, and textbooks
Alibris.com Rare and hard-to-find books; used textbooks
Amazon.com New and used books, synopses, reviews
Barnes & Noble New, used, textbooks, synopses, reviews
Book Review-a-Day Reviews from Powells.com, The Atlantic, Esquire, New Republic, Salon.com
BookFinder.com new, used, rare, out of print, and international books
Chegg.com “Cheap textbook rentals”
The New York Times: Books Reviews
Powells.com New and used books, synopses, reviews

Business, Economics & Investment

Hoover’s Online Directory and investment information for private and public companies
For more data, use LexisNexis: In the left blue menu, click "Companies." Then click "Company Profiles" and select “Hoover’s Company and Industry Reports." Enter the company name in the search box.
EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system) SEC company filings
Bank Rate Monitor Rates and news for credit cards, auto loans, savings, etc.
Bloomberg Business news, financial data
Reuters Business News, Finance News, Stock Market News Includes company profiles
Yahoo! Finance Has symbol lookup, as well as quotes, charts, news, discussion about stocks, funds, and indices.
ThomasNet formerly Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Economic Research: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Includes several online economic research tools located on the lefthand side of the main page
FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research historical U.S. economic statistics and publications
Financial Times U.S. version of a British financial publication, includes world-wide stock indices
International Monetary Fund Information on 185 member countries
Country Risk and Economic Indicators (from Coface) Analysis of the risks involved in trading in over 140 countries
globalEDGE Resource Desk (from International Business Center at Michigan State University) Resources on global business activities
Business Plan Archive Collection of business plans and other documents, frequently from dot-com companies
Groningen Growth & Development Centre International economic data
Market Research World Includes a useful glossary

Calendars & Dates & Time

Earth Calendar holidays and celebrations around the world
[Perpetual] Calendar Search for any date in history in many countries; from Time And Date.com
Timeanddate.com
Arabic Numeral / Roman Numeral Date Conversion Chart

Census

U.S. Census Bureau
American Factfinder population, housing, economic, and geographic data
Statistical Abstract of the U.S. Census Bureau
Historical Census Browser (from the University of Virginia Library)
U.S. Census Guide for materials at Lake Forest College
Race/Ethnicity by zipcode —based on 2005-2010 data (requires Flash Player)
Your Food Environment Atlas store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics

Chicago

City of Chicago
Encyclopedia of Chicago
Explore Chicago
Chicago Reader Current cultural & recreational events
Chicago City Search
Chicago Transit Authority Routes & Schedules
Metra Schedules Commuter rail for Chicagoland. The North Line, originating at Chicago's Ogilvie Transportation Center, is the only Metra route stopping in Lake Forest adjacent to Market Square.
MuseumsUSA, Chicago Museum Directory
Edward H. Bennett Collection: New Light on The Plan of Chicago 1909
Virtual Burnham Initiative —transforms a selection of flat images from the 1909 Plan of Chicago (by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett) into 3-D models accessible through this website. Free Google Earth software and Google SketchUp required for viewing.

Copyright

Lake Forest College Library Copyright Guidelines
U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright & Fair Use from Stanford University. See also: Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors
The Learning Page-Getting Started: Copyright from the Library of Congress
Copyright Renewal Database From Stanford. Search books published after 1923 (earlier are in public domain) through 1963 (year before automatically renewed by the 1976 Copyright Renewal Act).
Copyright Advisory Network from the American Library Association
University of Texas Crash Course in Copyright
University of Maryland Copyright Primer
Baruch University Guide to Using Interactive Media (“Copyright Metro”)
Bound By Law an online comic book on copyright and film, from Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain

Country Information

Library of Congress Country Studies - Area Handbooks
Library of Congress Country Profiles
Background Notes U.S. State Department
CIA World Factbook
Foreign Information by Country University of Colorado at Boulder
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Governments on the Web Last updated 2002, but many well-organized, current links
Constitutions of the World from Findlaw.com
Country Insights Cultural and economic information from the Centre for Intercultural Learning of the Canadian Foreign Service Institute of Foreign Affairs
United Nations Multimedia Press relases, radio and TV news reports, and photos
World Heritage from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Dictionaries & Thesauri

Oxford English Dictionary Online Lake Forest College only
Answers.com dictionary, thesaurus, translations
Merriam-Webster Online online dictionary and thesaurus
WordNet a large lexical database of English from Princeton University
Online Etymology Dictionary
OneLook searches across multiple dictionaries, including slang dictionaries. Searches translations.
Your dictionary.com definitions include quotations; links to dictionaries in many languages
Dictionary.com has pronunciations
Urban Dictionary current slang dictionary
Dictionary of Slang
NetLingo.com A dictionary of Internet-related terms; links to
The List of Chat Acronyms & Text Message Shorthand

Digital Books and Collections

Multi-disciplinary collections

E-Books and E-Reference Books Lake Forest College affiliates only
Amazon utilize the Search Inside!™ feature to read select portions of books
Virtual Books The British Library utilizes Turning the Pages software (may require Adobe Shockwave plugin); examine details of manuscripts, also access translated text transcriptions or summaries
Duke [University] Digital Collections 1920s - 1970s, US and Soviet Union popular culture items; search most of the collections or browse all collections
EBSCO E-Books (formerly NetLibrary)
eScholarship Editions 1982-2004. Over 500 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction
Google Books from the Advanced Book Search screen, select “Full view only” to retrieve whole books online
HathiTrust Digital Library includes private and public collections
Internet Archive: Free Movies, Music, Books & Wayback Machine
The Online Books Page links over 30,000 free online books and serials, selected for scholarly content, browseable by Library of Congress Subject Headings
Open Content Alliance (a program of the Internet Archive) includes Project Gutenberg, Open Source Books, Government Documents, etc., all searchable by keywords or browsable by subject keywords
Open Library goal is to have “one web page for every book ever published;” searchable records of over 13,439,320 books including over 234,857 with full-text
Project Gutenberg searchable text files of over 100,000 copyright-free books
Project Gutenberg Australia over 1,600 books in the public domain in Australia
Smithsonian Library and Archival Exhibitions On the Web
The Universal Digital Library goal is to digitize all books; over one million searchable, digitized books; international
UVa Library Digital Collection RepositoryTexts Search over 11,000 texts from the University of Virginia library collection. Some are only visible to UVa users. Some are only listed on the Subjects page, such as Apache, Japanese, and Chinese texts.

Art

SmartHistory free, online, multimedia, art history textbook sponsored by the Kress Foundation

Biology

Botanicus 18th and 19th century botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library

Literature

TEAMS Middle English Texts
Internet Classics Archive hosted by MIT

Terrorism

National Academies books on terrorism published by the National Academies Press

Elections

IFES Election Guide (International Foundation for Electoral Systems) describes electoral system of the country and gives past and current results. Search by year or country.

Energy

Energy Information Administration (EIA): Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government Petroleulm Data, Reports, Analysis, Surveys

Encyclopedias

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia via EBSCO, Lake Forest College only
EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Wikipedia, “the free encyclopedia,” is updated constantly by any contributor (often an authority on the topic) who provides neutral-bias references from reputable sources that do not represent original research by the contributor.

English

Environment

Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health Information and images (about using images)
Chicago Wilderness Magazine searchable, full-text articles, free online
Earth First! Journal “voice of the radical environmental movement”
EcoEarth.Info Environment Portal & Search Engine
EcoTox database a “tool for examining impacts of chemicals on the environment.” About EcoTox.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Envirolink
Forest Protection Portal — Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation News & Information; searchable, non-profit conservation website
Friends of the Earth an international network of environmentalists
Greenpeace International
League of Conservation Voters
MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) Hazard Communication Library
National Center for Appropriate Technology, “local solutions for a sustainable future”
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Political Advocacy Groups: Environment, A Directory of United States Lobbyists. created and maintained by Kathi Carlisle Fountain of Washington State University
Sierra Club
TRI (Toxics Release Inventory) a database that contains detailed information on nearly 650 chemicals and chemical categories that over 23,000 industrial and other facilities manage through disposal or other releases, recycling, energy recovery, or treatment
Voice of Agriculture - VOA - American Farm Bureau
Rainforest Action Network
World Resources Institute
World Watch Institute ”independent, non-profit organization researching links between the world economy and its environmental support systems”

Exchange Rates & Currency

FXCheatSheet® - Currency Converter for Travelers Generate a pocket-sized currency exchange rate list
Currencies of the World
Purchasing Power of US Dollar Calculator Compare purchasing power of money from 1775 to 2008
What is a dollar worth? (Right side of page) Consumer Price Index Calculator. From the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Calculate the change in prices over time from 1913 - 2009

Genealogy

Cindi’s List Genealogy resource website since 1996, updated regularly
Ellis Island Passenger Records Database
Family Search Internet Genealogy
Lifehacker Where to find public records online
Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records
Rootsweb (Ancestry.com)

Government Information

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Free Government Information (FGI) Use the search box in the upper righthand corner to find entries that have links to government and related documents
Homeland Security Digital Library To access some collections, you may be required to register.
Lake Forest College — Government Documents web page
Political Advocacy Groups: A Directory of United States Lobbyists. created and maintained by Kathi Carlisle Fountain of Washington State University
Thomas (Library of Congress)
USA.gov a search engine for official government information

Grants/Financial Aid

FAFSA
The Financial Aid Information Page The student guide to financial aid
The Foundation Center
SRA International Grants Web Resources

History

American Memory from the Library of Congress
The American Presidency Project over 87,000 documents from UC Santa Barbara
American President University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs
Countries History in the Yahoo! Directory
ECHO: Exploring & Collecting History Online A project of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University —a directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry
Encyclopedia of Chicago
The Founders’ Constitution
The National Archives UK government’s official archive
National Archives Featured Exhibits
Timelines - Alternatime from Cansius College, Buffalo, NY

Holidays & Festivals

Earth Calendar holidays and celebrations around the world
Federal Holidays listed for 1997 - 2020, from the Federal Office of Personnel Management

Illinois & States

50 States and Capitals
Illinois.gov the official website for the state of Illinois
Lake Forest College — Illinois & Local Government Information web page
Yahoo’s Guide to Illinois

Jobs

Craig’s List
Job Search (from the Lake Forest College Career Advancement Center)
Monster.com
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Online Career Center (from the Lake Forest College Career Advancement Center; Lake Forest College students, faculty, and staff only)
The Riley Guide

Lake Forest College

Campus map
College website
Daily Crime Log
Directory faculty, staff, and students
Donnelley and Lee Library
Forester Athletics
Moodle
MyForester
The Stentor the student newspaper
Eukaryon an undergraduate journal of life science scholarship at Lake Forest College

Legal Resources

Attorney directory from Martindale
Cornell Legal Information Institute
Findlaw Legal Resources
Findlaw U.S. Supreme Court Resources
The Founders’ Constitution
Global Legal Information Network
Guide to the Law Online from the Library of Congress
International Law
JuriGlobe world legal systems; from the University of Ottawa
Lawyer Directory from LexisNexis
The Oyez Project: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
Pre-Law resources for students
The Supreme Court Database

Libraries

Library WWW Servers
Other Library Catalogs Includes local public, Northwestern University, & University of Chicago libraries;
see also: Using Other Local Libraries

Maps & Atlases

Digital Sanborn Maps City maps, 1867-1970, 50 ft. per inch, access to Illinois maps only, Lake Forest College affiliates only
Google Earth download free software
Google Maps
Lake County Interactive Mapping Application Search or zoom in to land parcel view to produce a labeled map showing tax assessment, date last sold, or date of construction, or search by address or PIN (property index number).
Lake Forest College campus map
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Identify official titles of locations by searching keyword and by fields of landmark type (e.g., summit, range, airport, island, hospital).
Historical Maps Online “…images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory….” search by title, the date-issued, etc.
Map Collections: American Memory Includes historical maps
Mapquest Driving directions, travel distances & more
National Geographic Map Machine Includes physical, cultural, statistical, historical and street maps
Rand McNally Maps, directions, traffic
U.S. Census Maps
University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection Includes links to city and other maps worldwide

Medicine & Health

CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention division of the United States Department of Health & Human Services
Consumer Health Complete Lake Forest College only
Health Source: Consumer Edition Lake Forest College only
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Lake Forest College only
Medline Plus Directory of health resources created by the National Library of Medicine.
MediLexicon Search acronyms and abbreviations for medicine, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agrochemicals, and health care
Physician’s Desk Reference
PubMed Central full-text articles